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Latest Action: 04/12/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4439-4440) Bill TextA bill to reward the hard work and risk of individuals who choose to live in and help preserve America's small, rural towns, and for other purposes. 4/12/2007--Introduced. New Homestead Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to repay a specified percentage (up to $2,000 per year) of certain education loans to an individual who completes a degree and both resides and is employed for at least five years in an area outside a metropolitan statistical area which for 20 years has a net out-migration of inhabitants of at least 10% of the county population (qualifying county). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a: (1) tax credit for the lesser of $5,000 or 10% of the purchase price of a principal residence in a qualifying county; and (2) capital loss deduction with respect to a sale or exchange of a principal residence in a qualifying county. Provides for the creation of tax-exempt individual homestead accounts, funded by individual cash contributions and matching [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to determine successful methods to provide protection from catastrophic health expenses for individuals who have exceeded health insurance lifetime limits, to provide catastrophic health insurance coverage for uninsured individuals, and for other purposes. 4/24/2007--Introduced. Catastrophic Health Coverage Promotion Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration projects to provide health care coverage to individuals who: (1) are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare benefits and have exceeded $10,500 in out-of-pocket health care costs in a year or an adjusted amount based on the average out-of-pocket costs of individuals with catastrophic illnesses in a state for the year; or (2) were receiving Medicare or Medicaid benefits but who have exhausted their eligibility and any additional private health insurance coverage. Directs the Secretary, in designing such demonstration projects, to use: (1) state risk pools; (2) reinsurance [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5593-5594) Bill TextA bill to amend the Social Security Act to establish a Federal Reinsurance Program for Catastrophic Health Care Costs. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Healthy Businesses, Healthy Workers Reinsurance Act of 2007 - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXII (Federal Reinsurance Program for Catastrophic Health Care Costs). Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services an Office of Federal Reinsurance, which shall in turn establish a Federal Reinsurance Program for Catastrophic Health Care Costs to make reinsurance payments to eligible health plans experiencing catastrophic health care costs during a year with respect to a covered individual. Establishes in the Treasury the Federal Reinsurance for Catastrophic Health Care Costs Trust Fund.
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to designate any portion of a refund for use by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in providing catastrophic health coverage to individuals who do not otherwise have health coverage. 3/7/2007--Introduced. American LIFE Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the Health Coverage for the Uninsured Trust Fund to provide health coverage for uninsured individuals with catastrophic illnesses and injuries; and (2) allow individual taxpayers to designate on their income tax returns a portion of any overpayment of tax to such Fund.
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Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - S.AMDT.4577 Referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away. 1/18/2007--Introduced. Healthy Americans Act - Requires each adult individual to have the opportunity to purchase a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan (HAPI). Makes individuals who are not enrolled in another specified health plan and who are not opposed to coverage for religious reasons responsible for enrolling themselves and their dependent children in a HAPI plan offered through their state of residence. Sets forth penalties for failure to enroll. Establishes standardized coverage and state options for HAPI plans. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate guidelines concerning the benefits, items, and services to be covered. Sets forth requirements for setting premiums. Requires the Secretary to establish the Healthy America Advisory Committee to provide annual recommendations concerning modifications to [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5593-5594) Bill TextA bill to amend the Social Security Act to establish a Federal Reinsurance Program for Catastrophic Health Care Costs. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Healthy Businesses, Healthy Workers Reinsurance Act of 2007 - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXII (Federal Reinsurance Program for Catastrophic Health Care Costs). Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services an Office of Federal Reinsurance, which shall in turn establish a Federal Reinsurance Program for Catastrophic Health Care Costs to make reinsurance payments to eligible health plans experiencing catastrophic health care costs during a year with respect to a covered individual. Establishes in the Treasury the Federal Reinsurance for Catastrophic Health Care Costs Trust Fund.
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Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to determine successful methods to provide protection from catastrophic health expenses for individuals who have exceeded health insurance lifetime limits, to provide catastrophic health insurance coverage for uninsured individuals, and for other purposes. 4/24/2007--Introduced. Catastrophic Health Coverage Promotion Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration projects to provide health care coverage to individuals who: (1) are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare benefits and have exceeded $10,500 in out-of-pocket health care costs in a year or an adjusted amount based on the average out-of-pocket costs of individuals with catastrophic illnesses in a state for the year; or (2) were receiving Medicare or Medicaid benefits but who have exhausted their eligibility and any additional private health insurance coverage. Directs the Secretary, in designing such demonstration projects, to use: (1) state risk pools; (2) reinsurance [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agriculture, Bank accounts, Banks and banking, Budgets, Business, Capital gains tax, Capital investments, College costs, Construction costs, Consumer cooperatives, Cost of living adjustments, County politics and government, Depreciation and amortization, Earned income tax credit, Economic policy, Education, Electrification, Energy, Entrepreneurs, Excise tax, Federal aid to education, Federally-guaranteed loans, Finance, Government information, Government paperwork, Health policy, Higher education, Home ownership, Housing, Housing finance, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Infrastructure, Infrastructure (Economics), Internal migration, Investment tax credit, Job creation, Job training, Labor, Law, Medical care, Medical economics, Minimum tax, Nonprofit organizations, Politics and government, Residence requirements, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Rural education, Rural housing, Saving and investment, Savings and loan associations, Scholarships, Securities, Small business, Small towns, Social services, State and local government, Student loan funds, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax exclusion, Tax exemption, Tax penalties, Tax returns, Tax-exempt organizations, Trusts and trustees, Urban affairs, Venture capital, Vocational education, Welfare
Latest Action: 04/12/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4439-4440) Bill TextA bill to reward the hard work and risk of individuals who choose to live in and help preserve America's small, rural towns, and for other purposes. 4/12/2007--Introduced. New Homestead Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to repay a specified percentage (up to $2,000 per year) of certain education loans to an individual who completes a degree and both resides and is employed for at least five years in an area outside a metropolitan statistical area which for 20 years has a net out-migration of inhabitants of at least 10% of the county population (qualifying county). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a: (1) tax credit for the lesser of $5,000 or 10% of the purchase price of a principal residence in a qualifying county; and (2) capital loss deduction with respect to a sale or exchange of a principal residence in a qualifying county. Provides for the creation of tax-exempt individual homestead accounts, funded by individual cash contributions and matching [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to designate any portion of a refund for use by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in providing catastrophic health coverage to individuals who do not otherwise have health coverage. 3/7/2007--Introduced. American LIFE Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the Health Coverage for the Uninsured Trust Fund to provide health coverage for uninsured individuals with catastrophic illnesses and injuries; and (2) allow individual taxpayers to designate on their income tax returns a portion of any overpayment of tax to such Fund.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aged, Budgets, Business, Child health, Children, Chronically ill, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer education, Consumers, Drug advertising, Drug approvals, Drug industry, Drugs, Education, Employee health benefits, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to child health services, Federal employees, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Flexible benefit plans, Fringe benefits, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Higher education, Hospital care, Income tax, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Internet, Labor, Law, Living wills, Long-term care insurance, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical malpractice, Medical records, Medical supplies, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Physical examinations, Politics and government, Poor children, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Public contracts, Quality of care, Retiree health benefits, Standards, State and local government, State politics and government, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Telephone, Terminal care, Web sites, Welfare
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - S.AMDT.4577 Referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away. 1/18/2007--Introduced. Healthy Americans Act - Requires each adult individual to have the opportunity to purchase a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan (HAPI). Makes individuals who are not enrolled in another specified health plan and who are not opposed to coverage for religious reasons responsible for enrolling themselves and their dependent children in a HAPI plan offered through their state of residence. Sets forth penalties for failure to enroll. Establishes standardized coverage and state options for HAPI plans. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate guidelines concerning the benefits, items, and services to be covered. Sets forth requirements for setting premiums. Requires the Secretary to establish the Healthy America Advisory Committee to provide annual recommendations concerning modifications to [...] show full description
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